A more critical review:
http://wormtalk.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-hobbit-battle-of-five-armies.html
(From Professor Drout ,Tolkien scholar)
Agree with many of his points, esp the Aragorn age error that Thranduil mentioned at the end; i actually got into mini argument with a TORN person about this... they were judging from movie verse where in LotR (PJ verse) it was said that ARagorn was 87 so therefore it'll be 27 in Hobbit movie- verse. However, i beg to differ because that's not how you think about this and we should always go by the book. Also, Middle-earth isn't that small so that you know everyone, even Arathorn's son, King Thranduil but some fans love the foreshadowing but i agree with Prof. Drout.
And my own more critical thoughts will come as well since i saw the movie a third time 2 hours ago.
[Spoiler (click to open)]
(it's like, whyyy Tauriel and also whyyy Fili and Kili had to die like that instead of book-verse while defending their uncle... and also whyyy at all the elf heroism we have to have instead of Beorn!!! :( :(
Also, OBSERVATION that needs to be noted:
Does anyone else think that Thorin is kind of like Denethor in which he was reluctant to fight and to just hide? Also that madness it kind of like Denethor. Though i think Denethor was portrayed a bit more like a jerk than Thorin. They both wanted to hide at first though.
I also had to get Martin Freeman's end credit shot. :P Will post later. :)
Oh, did i mention i have A HUGE CRUSH on Armitage? because i DO, and i want to find several posters to plaster my home. :P